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People. This is it. Facebook has something to show us, on January 15th no less. “Come and see what we’re building” says the invite. What could it be? The fabled, practically-vapourware Facebook phone? Maybe a Facebook tablet? Or in fact, Facebook could have a new cyborg plug-in for your brain, so you can instantly over-share literally everything, including pure thought. Amazing!
God knows. Honestly, it could just be a new server architecture, or even something as lame as a new photo viewer. Anyway, the rumours point to a Facebook phone, even though MZuck himself said a phone would be “so clearly the wrong strategy for us”. Can’t get much more of a denial than that, but then maybe Zuckerberg doth protest too much? Pulling ‘a Jobs’ on us here Marky-Mark?
Either way, we’ll find out at Facebook’s mystery press conference on January 15th. I can hardly wait. [WSJ]
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No.
No, especially as the invite says Jan 15th
Leaving room for last-minute leaks
And last minute headline corrections it would appear
Be lovely if they released a nice tablet GUI for their android app
Facebook cant sell a phone…… They just dont have a “brand”…. people like Google, people like MS and people like Apple… Granted normally only 1 of the 3, but thats how they sell their things…
Facebook on the other hand people use out of necessity to keep in contact with friends etc. Do you ever hear people gush about facebook the way they do their fav tech company? No…. Doomed from the start.
Lets be fair though, there was a time before MS, Apple & Google got into the phone market and of those, only one makes the hardware. as to your second point, what is a mobile phone other than something “people use out of necessity to keep in contact with friends etc”?
But they were already established software / hardware companies. All 3 of them went through the internet boom and came out as huge oranizations, it just wont be as easy for FB.
It depends what they are making. If it is basically a stripped down version of android with all sharing and communication (except calls and text) handled by facebook services, This would be no more difficult for Facebook than it was for Amazon to make their Android branch.
Facebook has ingrained itself into our culture though. Nowadays you’re just as likely to be asked if you have facebook before being asked for a phone number.
Ok, I’m going to put it out there, everyone is thinking it but no-one is saying it so I’m just going to say it:
Giant Death Laser!